I saw in Popular Science today that someone (Logitech or Kensington?) has a wireless keyboard with a battery life of three years. Pretty good. And then I thought, why not just use the energy of the person pressing the keys — I’d think there’s enough force applied that it could keep a battery charged for [...]
Entries from September 2008
Human-powered Mouse and Keyboard
September 24th, 2008 · Comments Off · Computers, Main
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Generation Nod
September 23rd, 2008 · Comments Off · Main
I’m 35 and part of “Generation X” — the group of something-somethings who weren’t supposed to have any ambition other than paying for the Social Security and debt of the Selfish Generation.
The current generation, I dub “Generation Nod.” They are forever looking down. At the phones. Texting. Playing portable games. They never look up. An [...]
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New Choco Version Released
September 17th, 2008 · Comments Off · Computers, Main
Choco 2.0 is out. Open-source constraint satisfaction, written in Java, and business-friendly BSD-licensed.
It’s the Holy Grail of computing.
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Top Secret, Apparently
September 16th, 2008 · Comments Off · Computers
MsRdpClient.AdvancedSettings2.BitmapCacheSize = 48000
MsRdpClient.AdvancedSettings2.BitmapVirtualCacheSize = 48
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Preload Your Cache
September 15th, 2008 · Comments Off · Computers, Main
Might as well use the cache — that’s what it’s there for. Like Vista’s Superfetch, or XP’s prefetch, or precompiling JSPs, or what have you.
For example, to load up your squid http proxy cache, just run:
wget -r -nd -H –delete-after http://your.portal.company.local/
or
wget -r -nd -H –delete-after -i some_file_with_URLs.html
wget’s –no-cache will force the proxy to download fresh [...]
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